Re: [PLUG] weird mozilla spam issue

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Paul wrote:

> Art Alexion wrote:
>
> > Current mozilla releases have a built in bogofilter that marks mail 
> > as spam, and you can configure it to move of delete the detected 
> > spam.  It currently misses about 10% of actual spam (false negatives) 
> > but only gets 0.2% false positives (1 in 328, today) and those tend 
> > to be spam looking messages from vendors whose ads I have an interest 
> > in.
> Thanks for mentioning this.  You inspired me to learn about and 
> configure Mozilla's "Junk Mail Controls."  It only took a few 
> minutes.  It used to annoy me when mail would be marked as Junk 
> because I didn't know how the system worked and didn't take the time 
> to learn.


To train it most effectively, configure the controls to *move* mail 
*automatically* marked spam to the junk folder, and *delete* mail 
*manually* marked junk.  If the filter fails to catch a piece of spam, 
*don't delete it*, but delete it by marking it junk.  BTW, F8 toggles 
the message viewing pane (F9 the folder pane).  I hit F8 to check 
senders and subjects so that I can mark my mail without having to 
mozilla load the messages.  To insure no false positives, view the junk 
folder with the view pane toggled off.  Once you have satisfied yourself 
that there are no false positives, select ¨Delete mail marked junk in 
folder¨ from the Tools menu.

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